Photograph
by
Ewing
Galloway
PEDRO MIGUEL LOCKS CONNECT MIRAFLORES LAKE WITH THE GAILLARD
CUT
The whole series of Panama Canal locks are built in parallel chambers, making it possible for vesselstopass
without
loss
oftime.
They
are
equipped with electric locomotives, which tow all vessels through. In the background is the Gaillard (formerly
Culebra)
Cut,
out
of
which
United
States engineers had to remove more than a hundred million cubic yards of earth and rock.